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by 3xblah 8y ago
Was it only his phone that was targeted? What about the phone his mistress was using?
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I have been serving myself a custom root.zone for almost 20 years now. I use tinydns for this which I think has always been the ideal choice for personal use. The author from the beginning recommended users not to use third party DNS and t
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by 3xblah 8y ago
In the article there is an example of a blog post that is missing on blog.facebook.com but can be found on web.archive.org. I could be wrong but I think changes to robots.txt can make pages "disappear" from Internet Archive, too.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"... like DNS or network connectivity." If I recall corrrectly, early in the history of the commercialisation of domain names (1990's), for a time the sole appointed registrar Network Solutions would not accept domain name re
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I guess I need to try a different CPU. Cheers.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
That is true. There are some I never edit as long as they continue to work. Others I am continuously editing on a regular basis. Others are really "one-offs" that I keep just in case. If I need them again in the future, I migh
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by 3xblah 8y ago
The question the media should be asking Facebook is why can't they just stop tracking those users? Why must they fight a government trying to protect its citizens? Whose side is Facebook on? The side of advertisers? It cannot be the
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for. Even give us a static binary. Alas, I am getting "Illegal instruction (core dumped)". Will have to try another kernel.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I did not mean to imply otherwise. The phoning home was introduced with the 64bit trial. If I recall correctly, the 32bit trial used to time out after some number of hours after it was launched. This prevented, e.g., running it continuous
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by 3xblah 8y ago
You could have made a note of what the variable names stood for and put it at the top or end of each source file, in a separate file or even on a piece of paper. There is nothing inherently disadvantagous to using abbreviations as long as y
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"Programming is not telling the machine what to do." What is that called then? I am interested in controlling hardware, whatever that is called. I think Torvalds once said in a comment that is why he wrote his own kernel. He want
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Companies pay large licensing fees to use this software. There must be some "positive impact" on their business.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I actually had no problem reading that! At first glance, it looks unsightly but when one actually starts reading it (all of it, not just looking for "clues"), how it looks makes little difference. These threads that mention k ar
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by 3xblah 8y ago
The install for Anaconda is over 500MB. If it is anything like k, the "shakti" binary is probably small, maybe under 260KB. Is there a way to download just the shakti binary? What are the restrictions on the trial version of shakt
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by 3xblah 8y ago
https://gitlab.com/k7db/k Wasn't this public? https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=https://gitlab.com/k7db Reference: https://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha&#
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Where is k.c?
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by 3xblah 8y ago
From all I have read about the history of software author Richard Stallman, I would classify him as an end-user. By all accounts, he was not entirely satisfied with what commercial software was offering.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
That is a fair point. How would you counter the following? When a call is made or a text is sent to a mobile number is is not addressed to anyone in particular. It is addressed to the number only. Mobile phone "MFA" only proves
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I was careful to use the word "trustworthy". Are you saying that speed affects trustworthiness?
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by 3xblah 8y ago
One website I know uses postal mail to send a confirmation code. This seems much more trustworthy to me than mobile phone numbers. However I am curious to hear counterarguments, if there are any.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
The emergence of "music industry" has probably resulted in higher quantity of music but also more lower quality music. Touring is not easy work. It stands to reason that "love of doing" is still a primary motivation.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"Firefox is developed by a non-profit company, Mozilla, explicitly dedicated to users' needs. Google and Microsoft make money off of users in different ways and we can never be sure that their business decisions are going to align
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by 3xblah 8y ago
This sounds to me like a description of the internet, not Facebook. I also think it is possible to enable others to make such cost-saving use of the internet without also doing the objectionable things Zuckerberg has done.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Having grown tired of graphical software back in the 90's I have little interest in graphical user interfaces and interactive use. Chrome has never made a UI change I disagreed with because I do not care about the popular graphical br
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Well, the first question is why are the pages rendering slow to begin with? One way to make the pages I visit load faster is to disable Javascript. Another is to remove (or block) advertising. Another is to put DNS data for these sites in
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by 3xblah 8y ago
It is ticking that box I was wondering about. How many users tick it? chrome://chrome-urls/site-engagement and other chrome-urls These can provide useful data for me but not sure why I would want send the data to Google.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Thank you. Sadly, I missed that line. It sounds like a leak from within Facebook or another tech company on the receiving end of one of these requests. I always thought grand jury proceedings are supposed to be secret. Maybe this explains
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"It is not clear when the grand jury inquiry, overseen by prosecutors with the United States attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York, began or exactly what it is focusing on." What is NYT source for this story?
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Imagine if there was no "default" search engine or list of suggested search engines in the settings. I keep a running list of "alternative" search engines -- not directly Google or Bing, not Yahoo -- that work without JS
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"... in the data they're collecting from Chrome users." What percentage of Chrome users consented to the data collection? (Is consent even required?) Does the data represent all Chrome users or only those who have consented?

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